Old Enough to Know Better
“It looked like he was making some sort of a lamp out of the shell,” said Delaware Township, Pa., patrolman Mark Kobner, after responding to see what happened in the garage of John Grimm III, 73. “He was drilling into one of them.” But the shell — one of two described as small anti-aircraft artillery shells, probably of World War II vintage — was live, and it didn’t react well to a power drill. “It went off,” Kobner said, adding that Grimm “had them for a long time, more than 40 years.” Grimm was hospitalized in critical condition with shrapnel wounds. (RC/Easton Express-Times) ...The good news is, the lamp was very bright. The bad news is, it burned out in milliseconds.Original Publication Date: 27 May 2012
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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